what i do is after both laptops are on the same network, open finder and in the menu bar open go and click on connect to sever, then either type smb://comptuer's name or click browse and hopefully it will find the othe latop.

Im thinking of doing what the TS is doing - how can I get both computers on the same network

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in the case of the OP, one of the machines is a Mac running Leopard, so the easiest would be if both were at his house and both could access the internet either by cable or wireless. This would typically mean they are both on the house network and the windows machine should just show up in the sidebar of the finder on the mac under "shared machines."

If you have a router or a switch of any kind in any network environment and both machines are plugged into it, they are generally on the same subnet and thus the same network.

what i do is after both laptops are on the same network, open finder and in the menu bar open go and click on connect to sever, then either type smb://comptuer's name or click browse and hopefully it will find the othe latop.

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The Windows machine would have to have file sharing turned on, and you would likely need the username and password to log on.

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